Ocean Rainforest Sp/F (est. 2007) is a Faroese private company, which is engaged in the production of macroalgae (seaweed), cultivated on open ocean installations. The company has developed a scalable macroalgae cultivation rig (MACR) for off-shore deployment in water depths up to 200 meters.
Ocean Rainforest er eitt føroyskt felag, sum arbeiðir við framleiðslu av havbiomassa úr tara, sum er aldur á opnum havi. Ocean Rainforest hevur 15.000 metrar av taralínum í Funningsfirði. Harvið er Ocean Rainforest størsti taraalifyritøka í Europa. Meginparturin av framleiðsluni verður útfluttur til Europa og Canada. Harumframt er felagið virkið í altjóða granskingarverkætlanum.
Ocean Rainforest er eitt føroyskt felag, sum arbeiðir við framleiðslu av havbiomassa úr tara, sum er aldur á opnum havi. Ocean Rainforest hevur 15.000 metrar av taralínum í Funningsfirði. Harvið er Ocean Rainforest størsti taraalifyritøka í Europa. Meginparturin av framleiðsluni verður útfluttur til Europa og Canada. Harumframt er felagið virkið í altjóða granskingarverkætlanum.
Location: Denmark
Employees: 11-50
Phone: +298 310700
Total raised: $1.5M
Founded date: 2007
Investors 2
| Date | Name | Website |
| - | Katapult O... | katapultoc... |
| - | Twynam Inv... | twynam.com |
Funding Rounds 1
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 17.08.2020 | - | $1.5M | - |
Mentions in press and media 8
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| 18.10.2023 | Seaweed cultivator Ocean Rainforest bags €4.5M award to develop sustainable offshore seaweed farming | Read this article in: Faroe Islands-based Ocean Rainforest, a sustainable seaweed cultivator, announced that it has secured a €4.5M Technology to Market Plus Up award from the Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency–Energy ... |
| 17.02.2023 | This Faroe Islands-based startup raises €5.8M to create local ocean rainforests globally; here’s how | Kaldbak, Faroe Islands-based Ocean Rainforest, a seaweed cultivation and processing company, announced on Wednesday, February 15, that it has raised $6.2M (approximately €5.8M) funding in a Series A round of funding, led by The Grantham Fou... |
| 04.09.2020 | Agrifood investors head to the beach – but not for vacation | Normally, August is a slow month. It wasn’t this year – especially if you’re a seafood startup. Two big fund announcements and a spate of aquaculture and sustainable seafood deals signal that this long-underinvested agrifoodtech sector has ... |
| 17.08.2020 | WWF leads $1.5m investment in seaweed startup Ocean Rainforest | While reporting on the quest for sustainable seaweed last year, I alighted on the Faroe Islands, a remote archipelago in the North Atlantic. Here, I met the team at Ocean Rainforest, headed up by veteran Faroese ‘algae-preneur’ Olavur Grege... |
| 02.07.2019 | The Quest For Sustainable Seaweed | Swaying below the waves of a remote North Atlantic fjord are layers of rope held up by buoys and fixed to the ocean floor with anchors; the ropes themselves have been seeded densely with seaweed crops. A less dazzling landmark than the natu... |
| - | Ocean Rainforest | “We are a young blue growth company based in the Faroe Islands with offices in the USA. Our purpose is to improve people’s wellbeing and to make a unique contribution to our blue planet. We do this by applying science, innovation and expert... |